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Man it's tough being a construction worker. All day you have to lift heavy things, work with dangerous machinery that nobody takes care of, and the constant fear that some moron will ignore the safety regulations and drop a huge beam on your head. You get to work outside, but the smell of hot asphalt and the dust of whatever carcinogenic nonsense we're digging up ain't exactly fresh air and daisies. Then you gotta deal with your boss yelling bullshit at you all day from inside his air conditioned trailer.

Then to top it all off you get turned into a zombie and some giant beefy motherfucker smashes you in the face before falling into a puddle of gasoline and lighting himself on fire like an idiot.

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Ellis runs through the mall, but now within a building he is hesitant to be so open with using his gun. The walls will echo the shots and bring a horde to him immediately. There are signs and makeshift kiosks everywhere telling him that CEDA was using this place as a base of operations, but there's no evidence of any workers or military left alive in the area. He quickly and quietly picks through their supplies.

Over the main escalator he spots a banner for Jimmy Gibbs Jr making an appearance at the mall. He already knows what ended up becoming of Jimmy Gibbs Jr., but what he didn't realize was that his stock car was part of the appearance as well. If it's still in the mall, he might be able to use it to escape the area!

Losing himself in the moment, he gives an excited whoop. It reverberates through the halls and he immediately regrets his decision. He can see the horde coming to him through the mall. Looking around he sees a liquor store next to him. Grabbing a bottle of alcohol he makes a quick molotov cocktail and throws it at the horde, blocking their path. He runs off in the direction of the car.

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Ellis heads up the escalator towards where the stock car should be. He is just praying that it is still there. Finally he spots it under a giant sign of Jibby Gibbs Jr himself. He's several floors above it and just needs to make his way down. Heading towards an elevator he hears the soft cry of a woman. Are there survivors here after all?

Following the sound he slowly peaks around a corner. A blonde woman is sitting on the floor of a coffee shop, overturned tables and broken cups around her.

"Hey, hey miss, are you alright?" Ellis says softly, his gun still drawn. She stops crying but doesn't look up, so he moves a little closer. She starts growling and begins to stand. Ellis is within arm's reach now when she whips her head forward, glowing orange eyes and blood on her mouth. She reaches out for him with her claw like fingernails.

"Oh poo poo!" Ellis yells, unloading his shotgun in her face. She screams and falls down dead, but all the commotion has drawn the attention of every zombie in the mall. Ellis makes a break for the elevator, just managing to close the door. The car is right there, but it's not going to be easy getting to it.

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The elevator doors open and Ellis runs immediately to the stock car. He tries turning it on, but there is no gas in the tank. Ellis swears loudly until he notices several canisters littered around the mall floor. He grabs one close by and shakes it, hearing the slosh of gasoline inside. Pulling open the cap, he dumps the contents into the car, but there wasn't much to put in. He's going to have to go get others, but he has nobody watching his back on this one. Running through the crowd of zombies, he unloads round after round of his shotgun into the crowd, reloading as he goes. Grabbing two more tanks he brings them back to the car before going out to get others. He dodges smokers and chargers, knowing that if they catch him there will be nobody to save him.

He amasses a small pile of gas cans near the car, but he's going to need a moment to be able to pour them all in without getting mauled. Grabbing from his back pocket he finds one of the home made pipe bombs that were in that apartment they all stumbled on what feels like forever ago. Activating it, it makes a beeping noise which draws the attention of all the zombies and brings them to a fervor. He hears laughter as a disfigured monkey man is running over the tops of the heads of the zombie crowd trying to get to him. He throws the pipe bomb and the crowd immediately ignores him to head towards it, sweeping up the laughing monster with them. He begins pouring gas into the car as the pipe bomb beeps behind him. As he empties the last canister he hears a loud explosion and turns to see the body parts of over a hundred zombies and the jockey explode away from the pipe bomb.

Figuring that has to be enough gas, he moves around to get in the driver's seat of the car when he hears a low growl. Turning, a hunched figure in a hoodie screams at him, jumping off one of the lower levels onto the kiosk right in front of him. Ellis fires off his shotgun one more time, but when he goes to reload, finds he is out of bullets. Throwing the gun to the side, he does the only thing he can do, and slips through the window of the car into the seat. Turning the ignition the car springs to life as the hunter leaps at the car. He tries to climb into the passenger window, clawing at Ellis, but Ellis slams down on the gas, knocking the hunter off and crashing through the glass windows of the mall and onto the open road.